Chat Group: Starting by Body Swapping with Elysia? - Chapter 140 Part 1

Chapter 140: I’ll Remember This Grudge

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“Wind Dance!”

Though the essence of this authority lies in the creation of Ideal Fluid, with many avenues for expansion, for a Valkyrie like Wendy whose academics are mediocre, high-speed movement and storms are the simplest and most effective ways to utilize this Herrscher authority.

Though crude, it’s really quite useful.

When fighting Rita, she didn’t choose this move — a close-combat fighting technique that attaches wind blades to her hands for rapid assault strikes. This was also a derivative move that Wendy developed as a Valkyrie after becoming a Herrscher. Against the close-combat specialized Argent Knight: Artemis, it really wasn’t the right choice.

But that was then, this is now.

When the enemy switched from the close-combat maxed Rita to 【Bronya】, through the brief contact just now, Wendy felt that close combat was the best answer.

“Quite clever.”

Project Bunny, summoned by her thoughts, used its wide arm equipped with a shield to block Wendy’s offensive. The silver-haired girl in casual clothes, still under its protection, couldn’t help but praise.

Herrschers are basically mages who aren’t good at close combat, and the Herrscher of Reason, who mainly relies on technology, would be even more extreme in this regard.

However—

“The current Bronya is the true Herrscher of Reason.”

Accompanied by somewhat passionate, magical sound effects, 【Bronya】 chuckled softly as a layer of azure light covered her entire body.

The white silk princess dress of the Herrscher of Reason was shed, replaced by a warrior’s appearance as her long hair, previously scattered behind her, was now tied up into a ponytail.

“In the name of truth, manifest here.”

A tech-filled spear appeared in ‘her’ hand, pointing directly at Wendy who had been knocked back by Project Bunny.

Although the attire of the 【Herrscher of Reason】 and 【Herrscher of Truth】 was merely a change in clothing, to better control this power, Jiang Qiao imposed restrictions after his transformation — under the Herrscher of Reason outfit, 【Bronya】 could only display 80% of her power, but after changing into the Herrscher of Truth’s clothes, all restrictions on 【Bronya】 would be completely lifted, perfectly displaying 100% of the Herrscher of Truth’s power.

“Hmph, it’s just changing clothes!”

Although she sensed that 【Bronya】’s aura had become even stronger than before, Wendy didn’t take it seriously at all.

As time passed, her originally humble 800 HW energy level was also slowly rising, now approaching 1,000 HW.

The increase in energy level meant she was still getting stronger.

The victory in this battle belongs to me, Wendy!

Not knowing the inner thoughts of the green Seele before her, the silver-haired ponytailed girl holding a spear calmly watched her opponent. The patterns belonging to the Herrscher of Reason in her eyes had, after becoming the Herrscher of Truth, returned to simplicity and reverted to their most essential form.

In his mind, Project Bunny’s mechanical voice spoke:

【Conducting vector analysis — Analysis complete】

【Loading extreme mode — Loading complete】

【Analyzing target behavior patterns — Analysis complete】

【Deploying onboard floating cannons — 1….4….8….36.】

The next moment — the girl transformed into a blue streak, leaving behind a brilliant blue trail, her spear pointing directly at Wendy’s face, the sharp spear point only a foot away.

“Battle over, you lose.”

The cold milky-flavored words rang in Wendy’s ears, causing Wendy, who had just snapped out of her daze, to darken her expression. She wanted to shout loudly — I haven’t lost yet!

But what was pointing at her vital points wasn’t just that spear, but also the thirty-six small high-energy laser floating cannons that had somehow surrounded her.

“I don’t want the end of this battle to necessarily conclude with your sacrifice, Wendy. You deserve a better future.”

These emotionless words contained little feeling, yet were incredibly sincere.

This caused Wendy to fall into a long silence, after which she nodded somewhat dejectedly:

“Alright, I’ll behave.”

She didn’t harbor much hatred toward humans, it was merely dissatisfaction and resentment from having the future she should have possessed taken away.

— Originally reaching that point was only because she had been betrayed by the person she trusted most and had fallen into complete despair.

“…Um, can I stay by your side?”

Wendy pressed her index finger together, asking somewhat anxiously in a small voice.

Although her personality seemed quite flamboyant after becoming a Herrscher, this child was actually the type with delicate emotions and a severe lack of security.

It was precisely because of this personality that was highly similar to Seele’s that allowed Ducky to take advantage of Wendy’s vulnerable moment and break through her defenses, turning her into green Seele.

After becoming a Herrscher, that somewhat flamboyant personality was actually just like the cooking girl — the more a person lacks something, the more that missing part gets doubly compensated after becoming a Herrscher.

Some might think this is an isolated case, but this is indeed the result that comes with becoming a Herrscher — after all, Herrschers are perfect beings. The transition from human to Herrscher, this change in identity definitely wouldn’t be limited to superficial changes in life essence, but would also improve personality and will.

The gap brought by the Gem of Desire experiment and the bleakness of the future left Wendy unable to return to Schicksal’s camp — that old bastard Otto definitely wouldn’t ignore such a living Herrscher with personal will. Although she didn’t know about the latter, just the former was enough to leave Wendy at a loss, having lost her proper place to belong.

Wind is formless, it is free.

If Jiang Qiao hadn’t appeared, Wendy, having lost her place to belong, would probably have followed her heart’s desires and eventually withered away as a Herrscher in the conquest.

But the equally Herrscher-status 【Bronya】 made Wendy feel kinship, especially that sincere advice and that handsome little face. All of these factors led to Wendy making this seemingly quite masochistic request, even though they had only just met, were enemies just a second ago, and she had even been beaten up.

“Alright.”

Jiang Qiao had no reason to refuse the following of a Herrscher.

Not only was this a powerful fighter, but also a very cute girl.

Moreover, in a certain sense, Wendy could actually be considered a continuation of Pink Elf’s beautiful wishes.

She was one of the flowers that bloomed from the seeds Elysia had sown.

Therefore, he had the duty to nurture this flower that bloomed because of Elysia.